THE Minister of Health, Prof.
Onyebuchi Chukwu on Monday said
there had been no formal request from
the United States for Nigeria’s
assistance in combating the Ebola
Virus disease.
“As at Friday really, there was no
formal request by the United States,
for assistance in the containment of
Ebola Virus Disease”, the minister,
who spoke through his Special
Assistant (Media and
Communications), Mr. Dan Nwomeh,
said during an enquiry by our
correspondent on Monday in Abuja.
The US had last week recorded its first
case of EVD in circumstances similar
to the importation of the virus to
Nigeria by the Liberian-born American
Diplomat, late Mr. Patrick Sawyer.
Thomas Duncan, the first person to
have been diagnosed with EVD in the
US, is said to be fighting for his life in
a hospital in Dallas.
Based on the feat recorded by the
Federal Government in the
containment of EVD in Lagos and Port
Harcourt, speculations had been rife
that the President Barak Obama’s
administration would seek the
intervention of Nigeria.
The EVD case in US was recorded in
Dallas, and was from a patient who
had reportedly flown in from Liberia.
A statement from the Director of
Centre for Disease Control and the
Texas Health Department, Dr. Tom
Frieden, said the patient had been
hospitalised while contact tracing had
commenced. www.punchng.com/news/ebola-us-yet-to-request-for-assistance/

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